Kathy Smith has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes and was first played on 20 April 2015.

Kathy Smith was an American singer-songwriter from Californian who performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

Smith was part of the California folkie scene, playing at local venues and coffeehouses. A legendary venue (but rather unknown) was Paradox where people like Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne, Steve Noonan, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, John McEuen, and Penny Nichols used to play. Nobody found out about the place so it had to close down. The musicians found a new podium at the Troubadour….